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Noun: thresher  thre-shu(r)
  1. A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
    - thrasher, threshing machine
     
  2. Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
    - thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus

Derived forms: threshers

Type of: farm machine, shark

Part of: Alopius, genus Alopius

Encyclopedia: Thresher